Conversations with Avant-garde Sages - The Wizard LLC

Conversations with Avant-garde Sages
gets back to that quote you read from my book, if you live that
relationship with the Mystery yourself, you will naturally allow the
child to live it because you're handing them over to the same God
you put your own life in the hands of. And there's something
about the ability to do that where they will find their way, and
their Mystery and their magic will. It won't be under your control,
you won't know their path, and you will be as awed by the way
their life unfolds as you are with your own relationship to the
Mystery. It's not less than responsible, it's ultimate responsibility.
And I will say in the meantime, do your best to chop wood and
carry water, and feed them, and clothe them, and do everything
else.
But it's like, if anything, in our country our kids are suffering from
affluenza, we give them so much external, and so little internal
that it's like that's what's destroying the planet. That's the
arrogance of America, is our children expect, we expect, too much,
we expect it all to come handed to us on a silver platter. Letting a
child suffer a little bit naturally learning how if you touch the stove
you burn your hand, you do everything to keep their hand off the
stove but it happens. And there's something about that cocreation,
the way to raise a child with a co-creative relationship
with your own Mystery that will make for ultimate survival, at all
levels.
I mean, you have people who are buying their kids everything they
could possibly want, and they think that they are doing a better
job. I have some artist friends, who live in a teeny house, and their
children are so incredibly extraordinary for one reason, they are
present with them, they don't buy them a lot of junk, they are so
completely present with them. I mean, one just won the violin…
she's 14, she won nationally this classic violin contest, or whatever,
they're extraordinary. And what I see is the simplest most
beautiful people being present with their children. And what that
presence means, they're both very creative people, they have their
own relationship with creation, and their kids are a product of
that.
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